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od LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE organization and the model for other segregationist organizations, was formed in Indianola, Mississippi. 3, Tallahatchie County: Nicknamed the "Free State of Tallahatchie”, Tallahatchie County is comprised of 644 square miles, divided geographically, politically and socially into two distinct sections: the Delta, to the west; and the Hills, to the east. The county is bisected by the Tallahatchie River and has two county seats, located in the towns of Charleston and Sumner. Glendora, where J.W. Milam lived and operated a store, is located on the west side of the county, in the Delta area. Glendora had a population of 178 persons in 1950. 8&9 In 1950 the county had a population of 30,486, with 19,408 persons (sixty-three percent of the population) being non-white, of which 9,235 blacks were of voting age and none were registered to vote. In 1950 the county's total labor force consisted of 9,476 persons, of which 6,541 were engaged in agricultural jobs. The median annual per capita individual income was $607, with the average annual income of black families in the county being $462, The average adult had completed 5.7 years of school with black adults averaging 3.9 years of school attendance. In 1950 1,262 homes had flush toilets with 173 of these homes being occupied by blacks, '°'! 4, Delta Socioeconomics: In 1955 there were definitive socioeconomic strata within Mississippi Delta society. Black persons were considered to be at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale. The next level above blacks was the white sharecropper, followed by the white business person who catered to the black community. The white subjects in this investigation fall into the latter category. All other segments of white society, farmers, store owners who catered to the white * Hugh Steven Whitaker, “A Case Study in Southern Justice - The Emmett Till Case”, (Master's Thesis, Florida State University, 1963), 20 * United States Bureau of Census, /950 Census of the Population, Volume I, Characteristics of the Population, Part 24, Mississippi " United States Bureau of Census, 1950 Census of the Population, Volume I, Characteristics of the Population, Part 24, Mississippi "| United States Commission on Civil Rights, Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights 1959, 60 12 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE . This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. {t is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.